Postgraduate Free Printing Provision at the Institute of Archaeoloy
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Anonymous
12 years ago
What is the UCL offering for the elevated fee that we pay? Not only they intend not to provide a basic service but they want to make a benefit (another one) from us. Simply intolerable
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Yunci Cai
12 years ago
I signed the petition although I think it might be a futile attempt, because if UCL does allow IoA to retain the free printing rights for its postgraduate students, it will be under pressure from postgraduates students from other departments to be granted the same privilege.
What I would like to suggest is perhaps for the IoA to offer small hardship grants (perhaps from the savings of offering free printing in the past) to students who are struggling with living expenses, to help them cope with the impact of losing the privilege of free printing.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
campaign for responsible printing, don't cut funds.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
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having spent 4 years using allotted isd orinring services, I can attest to the fact that it is not nearly enough to cover what is required. This is more an exercise in money grubbing and centralized control than anything hing else. The fee structures already push the limits of international and UK/home student resources. We are fast approaching a tipping point at which the ability to attract high quality students who are not independently wealthy will have been a compromised without the possibility of repair.
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Silvia
12 years ago
Thi is and important right for all of us!
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Christie WIllis
12 years ago
This is very important to all students!
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Lesley Blundell
12 years ago
Although most of my printing is done at home I can see that
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tim schadla-hall
12 years ago
graduate students and post graduate students are our future-and desreve proper support- and the business case for the original decisions will not stack up- if ever we see it.
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Meghan Banton
12 years ago
As a PhD Student printing is something I do almost daily, please don't take away the free printing!!!
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Stuart Eve
12 years ago
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The cost of printing and binding a PhD thesis (2 Viva copies plus at least another 2 copies for final submission) is already massive. If you add to this printing costs as well - I think UCL will see the quality of their final submissions go down.
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valentina bernardi
12 years ago
I think the 4 to 5000.00 pounds fees we pay every year should cover well enough for printing. Many of us do at least one if not 2 jobs to pay for our studies, I really do not think we need the aggravation of printing expenses on top of all the already high cost of leaving and studying in London!!
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matilda duncker
12 years ago
Fru1tTea
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Luke Davies
12 years ago
That would be terrible
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Martin Locker
12 years ago
Worthwhile cause, free printing for already cash-strapped post-graduates is a real must.
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Gail Hammond
12 years ago
Reduce our tuition fees if we have to pay for printing!
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ahmed
12 years ago
I pay £13000 per year to get free printing! i cant afford extra money for printing!
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Banu Aydinoglugil
12 years ago
Already paying excessive amount of fees... for God's sake...
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Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
12 years ago
I always thought of post-graduate research students and institute staff as colleagues. Surely they should be treated as such?
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Agnese Benzonelli
12 years ago
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I am a self funded full-time student, doing three jobs (include post-graduate teaching assistant) to pay my fee and to "live" in London. Should I really pay for printing papers for my research (that I am ALREADY paying) or handouts for students?
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hana
12 years ago
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I can see how the IoA may want to push further towards being green. But this is not about that. When things need to be printed by a student, it will be printed elsewhere on paper - and paper is paper. The only difference charging will have is that you are stealing away the most basic facility that a student can have at a university. Post-grads dont hardly use any facilities at all, pay extreme fees and have border-line breakdowns...so why add to the misery?
What is the UCL offering for the elevated fee that we pay? Not only they intend not to provide a basic service but they want to make a benefit (another one) from us. Simply intolerable
I signed the petition although I think it might be a futile attempt, because if UCL does allow IoA to retain the free printing rights for its postgraduate students, it will be under pressure from postgraduates students from other departments to be granted the same privilege. What I would like to suggest is perhaps for the IoA to offer small hardship grants (perhaps from the savings of offering free printing in the past) to students who are struggling with living expenses, to help them cope with the impact of losing the privilege of free printing.
campaign for responsible printing, don't cut funds.
having spent 4 years using allotted isd orinring services, I can attest to the fact that it is not nearly enough to cover what is required. This is more an exercise in money grubbing and centralized control than anything hing else. The fee structures already push the limits of international and UK/home student resources. We are fast approaching a tipping point at which the ability to attract high quality students who are not independently wealthy will have been a compromised without the possibility of repair.
Thi is and important right for all of us!
This is very important to all students!
Although most of my printing is done at home I can see that
graduate students and post graduate students are our future-and desreve proper support- and the business case for the original decisions will not stack up- if ever we see it.
As a PhD Student printing is something I do almost daily, please don't take away the free printing!!!
The cost of printing and binding a PhD thesis (2 Viva copies plus at least another 2 copies for final submission) is already massive. If you add to this printing costs as well - I think UCL will see the quality of their final submissions go down.
I think the 4 to 5000.00 pounds fees we pay every year should cover well enough for printing. Many of us do at least one if not 2 jobs to pay for our studies, I really do not think we need the aggravation of printing expenses on top of all the already high cost of leaving and studying in London!!
Fru1tTea
That would be terrible
Worthwhile cause, free printing for already cash-strapped post-graduates is a real must.
Reduce our tuition fees if we have to pay for printing!
I pay £13000 per year to get free printing! i cant afford extra money for printing!
Already paying excessive amount of fees... for God's sake...
I always thought of post-graduate research students and institute staff as colleagues. Surely they should be treated as such?
I am a self funded full-time student, doing three jobs (include post-graduate teaching assistant) to pay my fee and to "live" in London. Should I really pay for printing papers for my research (that I am ALREADY paying) or handouts for students?
I can see how the IoA may want to push further towards being green. But this is not about that. When things need to be printed by a student, it will be printed elsewhere on paper - and paper is paper. The only difference charging will have is that you are stealing away the most basic facility that a student can have at a university. Post-grads dont hardly use any facilities at all, pay extreme fees and have border-line breakdowns...so why add to the misery?